Tag Archives: German literature

Book pimpage, a bold student and Cora is out of touch with romance reader tastes

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Cora

First of all, happy book release day to Elke Marion Weiß whose debut crime novel Triangel is published today. Elke was one of my teachers at university. In other news, today I had an eighth-grader ask me whether I had … Continue reading →

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More school drama, disliking a writer for the wrong reason and Pegasus Pulp e-books conquer Italy and Spain

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Cora

Another major drama erupted in my afternoon class today, ultimately spawned – as far as I could tell – by one girl telling another that she looked like a slut. This is really the most drama laden group I ever … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism is not Art – Q.R. Markham, Helene Hegemann and the Excuses of Cheaters

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Cora

There is more information on the Q.R. Markham plagiarism case: Thriller author Jeremy Duns, who was duped into blurbing the novel and running an interview with Q.R. Markham on his website, speaks out about discovering the plagiarism on his blog. … Continue reading →

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Linkdump, mostly German literature themed

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Cora

The 2011 German Book Award, which was created to be Germany’s answer to the Man-Booker Prize and the Prix Goncourt, goes to Eugen Ruge for his novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts, which is a multi-generation family saga set against … Continue reading →

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Three Anniversaries

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Cora

Exactly fifty years ago today (okay, yesterday, since I didn’t get the post up before midnight), on September 8, 1961, Unternehmen Stardust, the first issue of the German science fiction “Romanheft” Perry Rhodan appeared, in which US-astronaut Perry Rhodan with … Continue reading →

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A linkdump instead of an announcement

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Cora

I had planned to announce my latest e-book today, but Amazon is slow in putting the pages up, so that announcement will have to wait for tomorrow. So instead of an e-book announcement, here is a linkdump: I noted my … Continue reading →

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Secret Menus and more on Charlotte Roche

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Cora

Chuck Wendig offers the secret menu of writing advice. This is a great post, though I wonder whether secret menus in restaurants are primarily a US thing. Because I don’t know of any secret menus at German restaurants. That is, … Continue reading →

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Point of view, the T-V distinction and the Ingeborg Bachmann prize

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Cora

This is the post I had drafted and intended to post yesterday, before that Strunk and White business diverted my attention. It is long and full of technical details regarding linguistics, narrative perspective and contemporary German literature: The 2011 Ingeborg … Continue reading →

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Nazis on the Bookshelf

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Cora

I really seem to be determined to violate Godwin’s Law today, because after the garden fascism in my last post, I now tackle unexpected Nazis on the bookshelf. Over at the Pegasus Pulp site, I have a post explaining the … Continue reading →

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No blog today – well, almost

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Cora

Even though this is the first week of my summer holidays, it is turning out to be unusually busy with the newleaf reading yesterday, the monthly translators’ meet-up today (I met the guy who does the voice-over translation of important … Continue reading →

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